Knitted undershirt



YPatented Oct.

I. .WILCOMB KNITTBD UNDERSHIRT.

UNITED STATES 4 PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK WILCOMB, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE WILCOMB KNITTING MACHINE COMPANY, OF

JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY:

KISIITTED UNDERsHlRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,577, dated October 8, 1889.

Application tiledl January 22, 1887. Serial No. 225,188. (No specimens.) Patented in Canada January 16, 1889, No. 30,574.

i To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK WILCOMB, of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California,have invented an Improvementin Knitted Undershirts; and I hereby declare the following to be av full, clear, and exact description of the same. y

This invention has been patented to me in the Dominion of Canada by Letters Patent dated January 16, 1889, No. 30,5741.

My 'invention consists of an .improved shaped knitted undervest or undershirt, designed to avoid sealns as far as practicable by the use of tubular-shaped knitted fabric in the construction of the garment. It is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-'- Figure 1 shows the completed garment, and Fig. 2 shows the body of the garment as it is formed on the knitting-machine and ready to be stitched.

Heretofore knitted undershirts or undervests have been made either of straight-knitted tubular fabric, or, if shaped, they have been made of iiat fabric united by stitching, and the arms have been made in the same manner and similarly attached.

In the garment herein shown the body A is vformed upon a knitting-machine such as that shown in Letters Patent granted me on the 12th day of October, 1886. It is knitted in tubular form and is shaped in the knitting to it the body, as shown. It may be knitted -tubular throughout and cut down from the upper edges b b to thepoint ato form the armholes; but preferably it is knitted tubular from the bottom of the garment to this point a, which indicates the bottom of the armholes, and then knitted as a iiat fabric from this point to the top, forming front and rear flaps. The front iiapis cut out, as shown, to form the neckopening and slit to form the front opening, the edges of this opening being provided with suitable buttons and buttonholes. The upper edges b b of the two iiaps are stitched together from the sides to the point of the openingfor the neck. The sleeves B B are also knitted of tubular-shaped fabric and are united to the body by stitching in the usual Way. This form of undershirt or undervest is seamless, excepting the seams where the arms are joined to the body and the seam on the shoulder where the upper edges are united.

I am aware that shaped tubular fabrics are not new, and I do not broadly claim such as my invention.

I claim as my 'invention- As a new article of manufacture, an undershirt or undervest the body of which is formed of shaped tubular knitted fabric terminating at its upperv part in front and rear iiaps stitched on their upper edges and having a neck-opening, and sleeves formed of shaped tubular knitted fabric secured to the edges of the armholes, as set forth.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand. v

FRANK WILCOMB. Witnesses:

S. H. NoURsE,

H. C. LEE. 

